Ostensibly a blog about my novel in progress, but I'm bound to digress!

Monday, 2 February 2009

Snow Child 02.02.09

As the UK is covered in snow at the moment I thought you might like to read a story I wrote a while back for one of TFQ's books. It's called 'The Snow Child' and for you WOTR buffs there's something to make you smile (or perhaps not!) concerning someone named Jaquetta. All I will say is Warwick was right after all lol!!!

Jaquetta is named after Jaquetta Wydeville, mother of Elizabeth, Edward IV's queen. Warwick accused her of witchcraft. At the time there were plenty of rumours, mainly centered round Edward's clandestine marriage to her daughter. Why else would Edward have done such a thing? She was accused of making a effigy of Warwick and casting spells to bring him an early death but it all fell apart when the witnesses declared one of Warwick's retainers had paid them - but who knows, maybe she did cast spells and they worked? In her novels about the WOTR "We Speak No Treason" Rosemary Hawley-Jarman gives the Wydevilles magic powers and in his factual book "Arthurian Myths and Alchemy -the Kingship of Edward IV" Jonathan Hughes gives credence to a strong belief in prophecies, alchemy and astrological predictions closely associated with Edward himself.

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A BRAG medallion™ Honoree.
Recently published my second novel 'A Rose of England'- available now from Amazon. This is the sequel to 'The Colour of Treason' which was published in 2011 and was awarded a BRAG medallion™. I am also working on an action adventure series also set in the fifteenth century. Member of The Frivolous Quill writing group. Member of Towton Battlefield Society and the Frei Compagnie. Member of Richard III Society.